Release Date: Tuesday, May 28 2013, 09:23 AM
This is a joint media release with NSW Police
Police have arrested a man overnight for allegedly making threats against a Commonwealth public official.
Just after 11 o’clock last night officers from the Joint Counter Terrorism Team Sydney Office, which includes members of NSW Police and the Australian Federal Police (AFP), along with police from the Flemington Local Area Command attended a house in Dartbrook Road at Auburn where they executed a search warrant.
As a result, a 23-year-old man was arrested at the house and taken to Auburn Police Station where he was charged with Use a carriage service to make a threat, and Threatening to cause harm to a Commonwealth Public Official.
The man was refused bail and will appear in Burwood Local Court today.
The charges relate to the alleged threats made against a Commonwealth officer on the 2 May this year.
